I feel like it would be a totally rad thing to have as sizable a Pastafarian presence as possible. I know most of us probably won't be able to make it, but I think this is the best opportunity for a large gathering of Pastafarians, (especially with a public rally type thing) possible, short of Bobby organizing a convention or rally.

I'm probably just being optimistic and jumping the gun here, but I figured I'd create a central thread for organizational purposes. If there's any of us that live in the Metro-DC area, I always like the idea of people being put up in actual homes, rather than having to worry about hotels. Of course, there are obvious reasons not to do that, but I'm just thinking in general terms here. slightly more realistic may be people pitching in together to share hotel space, saving money for everyone. So say someone drives down from Pennsylvania, and another from North Carolina, but they both split and share a hotel room. Or people from a similar geographic location can pool travel resources.

At the very least, if even two of us show up in D.C., it'd be cool to meet elsewhere before to hang out, and then attend the rally together, as a Pastafarian bloc.

UDK#2 is on a growth spurt right now (She's 12 now!). If she keeps growing at the rate she has been, I'll be the one who needs the "Midgit" sign. She's considering bringing a sign saying "Is this thing on?"

I've been trying to come up with good sign ideas for the rally. We will probably bring our four favorites. Some contenders:

"Keep your religion to yourself, please.""What do we want? Sanity. When do we want it? Soon.""OBAMA is doing pretty OK, under the circumstances""This is not a sign""I was promised pudding"

I want to go, but I have to figure out the best way of getting there. There's Amtrak, but I fear that either the local is going to be sloooooooooow, or the Acela is going to be expennnnnnsive. And I don't know anyone who both has a car and is going.